cover image: Materi shelling maize, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1924

Materi shelling maize, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1924

“Materi – the funny man – shelling maize in front of the hospital store.” Portrait of a man feeding maize husks into a machine. The production of maize in the area increased when Dr Irvine set up a mill for grinding maize for flour. ❧ This image is from the first years of the Chogoria mission in Kenya, which was run by the Rev. Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974), from the collection entitled ‘Chogoria, 1922. The early days.”
workers food processing indigenous peoples
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82100
Date published
circa 1924
Dates
circa 1924
Pages
Photographic prints, 7.8 x 10.3 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Chogoria Eastern Province Kenya
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Kenya
Reference
impa-a-nls-97122195-1.tif
Rights
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/c1bbc5f7b9f36369fe62d3199fb1bc8e

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